16 August 2013
Request you to go through Service Tax Notification No: 29/2012 and clarify the following points. 1.What exactly the impact of this Notification. 2.We have certain properties which we have given on rentals and we have been receiving rents along with Service Tax. Whatever Service Tax that we are collecting the same is been remitted back to the Government without claiming any benefit or exemption on Property Tax which we pay on these properties.Now how we can avail benefit & Which value given in ST-3 Return.
16 August 2013
Since you have already collected the tax on the value of service without adjusting property tax paid/payable by you, you need to pay the amount collected by you. For future, you charges the service tax from your tenant on the amount of monthly rent minus annual property tax payable divided by 12.
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